COVID-19 has disrupted the entire bureaucracy of human mobility across final national borders and halted global travel. Preliminary estimates recommend that the pandemic would likely have slowed the expansion of the inventory of foreign migrants by around two million by mid-2020, 27% less than the expected expansion since mid-2019, according to a United Nations report released today.
The growth in the number of foreign immigrants has been physically powerful over the past two decades, bringing 281 million others to live outside their home country in 2020, up from 173 million in 2000 and 221 million in 2010. Currently, the foreign immigrant count for approximately 3. 6 consistent with cent. of the world’s population.
The report, Highlights of International Migration 2020, by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), provides the most recent estimates of the number of foreign migrants by country of destination, origin, age and gender for all countries. and regions of the world.
Mr. Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said: “The report affirms that migration is a component of today’s globalized world and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the livelihoods of millions of migrants and their families. and undermined progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The report found that two-thirds of all foreign immigrants live in just 20 countries. The United States of America remained the largest destination, 51 million foreign immigrants in 2020, or 18% of the global total. Germany gained the largest number of immigrants of the moment. in the world, with about 16 million, followed by Saudi Arabia (13 million), the Russian Federation (12 million) and the United Kingdom (9 million).
India tops the list of countries with the largest diasporas in 2020, with another 18 million people from India living outside their country of birth. Other countries with a large transnational network are Mexico and the Russian Federation (11 million each), China (10 million) and Syria (8 million).
Diasporas contribute to the progress of their home countries through the sale of foreign investment, trade, generation and monetary inclusion. However, according to World Bank projections, the COVID-19 pandemic may decrease the volume of remittances sent to low- and low-income countries. middle-income countries from $548 billion in 2019 to $470 billion in 2021, a decrease of $78 billion or 14 percent in line with the percentage. This loss has affected the livelihoods of millions of migrants and their families, blocking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Coherent domestic methods and foreign measures will be needed to mitigate the effects of this loss.
Among the world’s major regions, the largest number of foreign immigrants in 2020 resided in Europe, totaling 87 million. North America had the largest number of immigrants at the time, with only about 59 million. with a total of almost 50 million.
In 2020, almost a fraction of all foreign migrants live in the region from which they originate, and Europe accounts for the highest consistent share of intra-regional migration: 70% of European-born immigrants live in some other European country. with the percentage of intraregional migration among migrants from sub-Saharan Africa 63 in line with the percentage. At the other end of the spectrum, Central and South Asia had the largest percentage in line with their diaspora living outside the region, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean and North America.
Nearly two-thirds of all foreign immigrants live in high-income countries, only 31% in middle-income countries and about 4% in low-income countries. On the other hand, low- and middle-income countries hosted 80% of the world’s refugees in 2020. Refugees account for about 3 percent of all foreign immigrants in high-income countries, 25 percent in middle-income countries, and 50 percent in low-income countries.
In 2020, refugees accounted for 12% of all foreign immigrants, up from 9. 5% in 2000, and forced displacement across national borders increased faster than voluntary migration. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of others fleeing conflict, crisis, persecution, violence or human rights violations doubled from 17 million to 34 million.
Immigrant women are catalysts for change, selling positive social, cultural and political norms within their homes and communities. Almost a portion of all foreign immigrants were women or girls. In 2020, the number of immigrant women surpassed immigrant men in Europe, North America and Oceania, partly due to a longer life expectancy of women than men. In sub-Saharan Africa and Western Asia, men tend to outnumber women, which is attributed to transient labour migration.
International migrants constitute a larger proportion of other people of running age relative to the national population. In 2020, 73% of all foreign migrants were between 20 and 64 years old, compared to 57% of the general population. In the absence of migrant foreigners, the proportion of children over 65 or over a hundred children aged 20-64, or the old-age dependency ratio, in high-income countries would have been almost three times higher in 2020.
With the adoption of landmark agreements through the General Assembly, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, countries have begun to adopt measures to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration. normal migration and normal migration. Globally, 54% of the 111 governments that responded to a recent survey reported having such policies.
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